Medical Terminology Semester 2 Review

The patient is having problems breathing. A medical term for this is...

• Hemoralgia

• Dyspnea

• malcarbona

• apnea

Gas exchange occurs in the lungs at the alveoli

• true
• false

Tachypnea means slow breathing

• True
• False, fast breathing

blood in the chest

• hemothorax
• thorcotomy
• hemocartilage
• pneumothorax

blue skin caused by low oxygen in blood

• cyanosis
• epistaxis
• rales
• cyanuecstasis

Vein

• phleb/o, my/o

• ven/o, vascul/o

• angi/o, phleb/o

• ven/o, phleb/o

Hematopoiesis

• Structure of blood

• Dilation of blood

• Production of blood

• Protection of blood

-otomy

• examining instrument

• suture of, sewing up of

• cutting into

• rupture of, bursting

Which of these word roots indicates lungs?

• “laryng”

• “pharyng”

• “sinus”

• “pneum”

What does the word root gastr refer to?

• “large intestine”

• “small intestine”

• “kidneys”

• “stomach”